Michael Brooke, curator of the British Film Institute’s Screenonline, will talk about film-makers adapting their working methods from television to film using examples from the BBC’s landmark Play for Today (such as Abigail’s Party, above) series as well as the work of filmmakers Mike Leigh and Ken Loach and writers such as David Hare. All the clips used are sourced from the BFI Mediatheque at Wrexham Library – the first Mediatheque in Wales, which is provided in partnership with the BFI. It offers around 1800 complete films and TV programmes, including more than 100 from Wales, many of which have been provided by the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales.

This event is free. To attend email james@thefestivalscompany.co.uk.

Michael Brooke is the Screenonline Curator at the BFI National Archive. In addition to his prolific contributions to various BFI outlets (Screenonline, the Mediatheques, InView), he writes regularly for various publications, especially Sight & Sound, usually about British and central-eastern European cinema. He has also written several booklet essays for the BFI and Second Run DVD labels, and produced the BFI’s acclaimed Quay Brothers and Jan Svankmajer short-film DVD compilations. Most recently, he has contributed chapters to the books Post-War British Documentary (BFI, 2010), Polish Cinema Now! (Adam Mickiewicz Institute, 2010) and Trzynasty miesiąc. Kino braci Quay (Hal-Art, 2010).